Justin Spice is on a mission to make something like MechWarrior in VR.
In the 1990s he set up a cardboard box around his PC’s monitor to simulate a cockpit for MechWarrior 2 running on Windows 95. Roughly 30 years later, Iron Rebellions’s very positive rating on Steam (and 4.6 on Quest) is a testament to his effort at Black Beach Studio to create a fully fledged VR mech game inspired by his experience back then.
I recently bought it on a discount but have not tried it yet. Looks definitly interesting, but it seems like mostly intended for PvP, with few players online according to the reviews.
On a related note: there is a VR mod for Mechwarrior 5 that also works quite well.
Nothing will top the feeling of playing Steel Battalion on the original XBox, but if this can compare, it might be worth trying.
